As a follow up to my people post:
I was pleased to be reminded how many people are already working in this direction, such as Gimmie’s People menu, gossip-telepathy, and Project Soylent. I’m not claiming to be original. I’m convinced that we can get this done technically, and that we can get it done faster by […]

libgda and libgnomedb 3.0 are now API frozen since their latest release, this time for real as per our simple release schedule. This is the right time to look over the API in the latest tarballs. Final release is due for April 4th, 2007.
Corresponding libgdamm and libgnomedbmm tarballs have also been released for the C++ […]

We visited Munich’s new Jewish Museum at the weekend, on St Jakobs Platz, near the Stadtmuseum. The new synagogue, which looks a bit like a British car park from the outside, and the new culture center are also on the square. I hadn’t know before that Munich’s main synagogue used to be on St Jakob’s […]

The fix to the incredibly-small-name-column bug in nautilus has introduced a new bug. The name columns are often still too small, and they have to be resized even when reopening the same folder. At the moment it looks like this is going to be in Ubuntu Feisty to annoy me for the next six months.
I […]

The GTK+ multipress input method, that Openismus created for a customer, has now been added to GTK+’s trunk branch, to appear in GTK+ 2.11/12. It still needs a couple of minor improvements, as noted in that bug report.
For people using GTK+ 2.10 and earlier, the standalone version is still available.

I asked people to write up their realistic visions for GNOME. So here’s the part that I find most inspiring. Sorry if this seems like a mad rant - it seems sensible and feasible to me.
Obviously I am personally interested in directly giving end users what they want, both because I write software for users, […]

Yesterday I mentioned GNOME’s time-based releases. But what about aims?
The RoadMap
We can aim for features while still doing time-based releases. The time-based schedule just releases whatever features are ready on time. If people feel there’s now a lack of long-term vision, well that’s not caused by our current release process. On the contrary, now […]

Glom 1.4.0 is out. Glom is an easy-to-use database system, which is gradually becoming more useful. It’s already available in Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty, not yet final) [1] thanks to Daniel Holbach and Martin Pitt.
New features in Glom 1.4

Self-hosting: Databases can now be created in a local directory, without the pain of configuring a central […]

I recently had the opportunity to proof-read Martin Michlmayr’s PhD thesis on release management in large open source projects. Martin is an ex Debian project leader, so he has personal experience. His research confirms what I believe to be true about the benefits of a time-based schedule rather than a feature-based schedule, based on GNOME’s […]

I have a subscription to the Economist. I like their style and practical interest in a better world, and I try to consider their support for the Iraq war, then and now, as an anomaly.
But why does my Economist arrive at around 3 O’clock on Saturday while it’s in the international newsagent at Munich’s main […]